440 BC

440 BC

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Events

By place

Greece

* Samos, an autonomous member of the Delian League and one of Athens' principal allies with a substantial fleet of its own, quarrels with Miletus and appeals to Athens for assistance. Pericles decides in favour of Miletus, so Samos revolts. Pericles then sails to Samos with a fleet to overthrow its oligarchic government and install a democratic one. Sparta threatens to interfere. However, at a congress of the Peloponnesian League, its members vote not to intervene on behalf of Samos against Athens.

Roman Republic

* A famine strikes in Rome.

China

* Zhou kao wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

By topic

Physics

* Democritus proposes the existence of indivisible particles, which he calls atoms.

Art

* Polykleitos completes one of his greatest statues, the "Doryphorus" ("The Spear Bearer") (approximate date).
* The stela, "Demeter, Persephone and Triptolemos", from Eleusis, is made (approximate date). It is now kept at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
* A temple for Poseidon is erected in Sounion.

Births

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Deaths

* Ducetius, a Hellenized leader of the Sicels and founder of a united Sicilian state


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